Capturing an indelible period in America through the lens of richly drawn characters we come to know and love, Early Warning is an engrossing, beautifully told story of the challenges-and rich rewards-of family and home, even in the most turbulent of times' - provided by publisher. As the country moves out of postwar optimism through the Cold War, the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and '70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth-for some-of the early '80s, the Langdon children will have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam-leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shockwaves through the Langdon family into the next generation. Only one will remain to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, DC, California, and everywhere in between. with his wife had sustained their Iowa farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children looking to the future. Listen Free to Early Warning: A Novel audiobook by Jane Smiley with a 30 Day Free Trial Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet and iOS and. A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley: 9780525520337 : Books From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: An amazing mash-up of a Western, a serial-killer mystery and. And they now have children of their own: twin boys who are best friends and vicious rivals a girl whose rebellious spirit takes her to the notorious Peoples Temple in San Francisco and a golden boy who drops out of college to fight in Vietnam - leaving behind a secret legacy that will send shock waves through the Langdon family into the next generation.'Early Warning opens in 1953 with the Langdons at a crossroads.

As the country moves out of post-World War II optimism through the darker landscape of the Cold War and the social and sexual revolutions of the 1960s and '70s, and then into the unprecedented wealth - for some - of the early 1980s, the Langdon children each follow a different path in a rapidly changing world. Only one will remain in Iowa to work the land, while the others scatter to Washington, D.C., California, and everywhere in between. Their stalwart patriarch, Walter, who with his wife, Rosanna, sustained their farm for three decades, has suddenly died, leaving their five children, now adults, looking to the future. In 1953, the Langdon family at a crossroads. Early Warning is the second volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy and builds upon the characters first introduced in volume one, Some Luck. The second novel in the dazzling Last Hundred Years trilogy, Early Warning follows the Langdon family from the 50s, through to the 1980s, in this stunning. Reading Jane Smileys middle novel in her Last Hundred Years trilogy.

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